• DocumentCode
    3201022
  • Title

    Technical overview of VP8, an open source video codec for the web

  • Author

    Bankoski, Jim ; Wilkins, Paul ; Xu, Yaowu

  • Author_Institution
    Google Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    11-15 July 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    6
  • Abstract
    VP8 is an open source video compression format supported by a consortium of technology companies. This paper provides a technical overview of the format, with an emphasis on its unique features. The paper also discusses how these features benefit VP8 in achieving high compression efficiency and low decoding complexity at the same time.
  • Keywords
    Internet; public domain software; video codecs; video coding; VP8; World Wide Web; open source video codec; open source video compression format; Automatic voltage control; Continuous wavelet transforms; Entropy; Information filters; Quantization; VP8; Video Codec; Web Video; WebM;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Barcelona
  • ISSN
    1945-7871
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-61284-348-3
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1945-7871
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICME.2011.6012227
  • Filename
    6012227